Tip: How to get an animated Me Tile for your Twitter profile

Update: Only a few days after we posted this and it looks like Twitter plugged the hole...so if you have an animated GIF, keep it. If you wanted one for Twitter, you're out of luck!

Yesterday we reported on the new update for Tile Me! that now allows you to create an animated GIF in addition to a static Me Tile image. The purpose of the app is so that you can use the generated image for your social network profiles, spreading the Windows Phone love.

While the animated GIF addition was the second most requested feature from users, quite a few of you were asking where could you actually use it? As it turns out, you can use it on Twitter, though there’s a unique trick to it.

For one, the generating GIF must be less than 700kb. The other caveat is you need to use a special Twitter link to change your profile photo. So without further ado, here are the steps on how you can get a bouncing Me Tile for your Twitter profile.

The end result should look like the one on my account: twitter.com/Daniel_rubino, which now has a bouncing Live Tile just like on my Windows Phone.

Crass? Cheezy? Maybe even a tad annoying? Perhaps, but we’ll leave that judgment to you and your associates. For now you can use these steps if you want to be a part of the cool crowd (that’s what we’re telling ourselves, at least).

Because most apps aren't even worth 79p and neither is this really but it has a novelty about it that i like. I'm not really an app user anyway, unless it's a game, which i own over 60 xbox live games on windows phone.

Tried you instructions for gif instructions for "Steps for creating an animated GIF for your Twitter profile", but with no luck. My gif is 96 x 96, size - 6.73 KB size on disk - 8.00KB. Even ran it through gif reducer. I then down loaded your gif and tried to load it to my profile jusr to see if it would work. No annimation. Any ideas . . . .